View full sizeGlenn Baeske / The Huntsville TimesHammad Memon, 14, looks out of a police car as he is transferred to the Madison County Jail complex Friday afternoon.

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A Madison County judge has set a $75,000 bond for Hammad Memon, the 14-year-old accused of killing his Discovery Middle School classmate, Todd Brown, on Feb. 5.

District Judge Lynn Sherrod, after a 20-minute hearing, set the bond with the condition that Memon surrender his passport. His family is from Pakistan and Memon has dual citizenship in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

He will now be transferred to the Madison County jail. His lawyer, Bruce Gardner, said Memon's family plans to let him stay in jail on suicide watch for the time being until they find a place to have him treated for mental issues.

Gardner said he thought he had made a good case for having Memon tried as a juvenile and was disappointed Sherrod certified him to stand trial as an adult.

He described Memon as having the mental maturity of an 8-year-old and serious mental illness.

"This young man is seriously mentally ill and acutely suicidal," Gardner said. "He is in tremendous need of inpatient psychotherapy and drug regimentation."

Gardner said what Memon did to Brown, who was shot in the back of the head in the Discovery Middle School 9th grade hall during a class change, "was indefensible."

"Without a doubt what he did was indefensible," Gardner said. "There was no real threat to Hammad at the time he shot him. It was a pretty doggone cold-blooded killing. You've got a tragedy and now you're going to compound that with another tragedy" by trying him as an adult.